Ying Tianfu Yin Chengde and Ying Tianfu Tongzhi Chen Yi began to organize manpower to re-conduct tax statistics on Tianfu City, accompanied by Wu Jiayin, Langzhong of the household department, and drew up tax stamps on the spot to collect taxes on the spot.

At the same time, the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are also on standby at any time, as long as there are tax resistors to be arrested on the spot.

Because of the landing of dozens of heads, no one dared to have any resistance to the levy, and the noble families such as Wei Guogong and Chengyi Bo also obediently ordered the housekeepers of various industries to open boxes of silver dollars and prepare to pay taxes;

Officials such as Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the Ministry of Households, also began to take the initiative to send people to instruct their families to take the initiative to pay taxes and take the initiative to exchange silver dollars at various branches of the Daming Central Bank.

The tax collection order in Nanjing City has become orderly, and if there are a few people who still do not cooperate, Ying Tianfu will no longer look ahead and backward, saying that if you take people, you will take people, or you will forcibly close the store.

For a time, there were also some merchants and handicraftsmen in Nanjing who refused to pay taxes, refused to recognize tax stamps, and even openly disobeyed, and the imperial court naturally would not be merciful, and would still forcibly detain them, and death was inevitable, but this was also something that could not be avoided.

For the bureaucracy, it is necessary to kill people's heads, and naturally it is not special for the common people.

Moreover, these civilians who resisted were only a small number of people with a more manic personality and a strong sense of struggle, or they relied on their own kinship with such and such an official.

Most of the commoners still chose to cooperate with the government to collect taxes, after all, the tax rate collected by the government was not heavy for them, who could only be regarded as a small and wealthy landlord class.

Zhu Youzhen has clearly demanded that the household department only recognize silver dollars when collecting taxes, which means that the people can only come to the Daming Central Bank to exchange silver dollars with various branches to pay taxes.

In the past, the people who did not trust the silver dollar at this time, whether it was the official eunuch or the common people, once again came to the branches of the Ming Central Bank to exchange the silver dollar, setting off a crazy run on the storm.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen also specially summoned Yang Mingshen, who had been promoted to the post of the right attendant of the household department, and Wang Jiaqin, two vice presidents of the Daming Central Bank, as well as the president, the chief of ceremonies, and Han Shoujing, the eunuch of Bingbi, and asked them whether the Daming Central Bank had enough silver dollars to cope with the exchange boom.

Wang Jiaqin said that according to the market circulation surveyed by the people below, it has been estimated that the total value of commercial tax and foreign trade tax in the entire Ming Dynasty this year should be between 180 million taels of silver and 190 million taels of silver, and then minus the silver coins that the Daming Central Bank has put on the market and the silver coins that the Daming Central Bank has already reserved, this time the Daming Central Bank has minted 100 million taels of silver dollars in reserve as early as half a year ago.

"That is to say, as long as this is put on the market in the form of exchange for 100 million taels of silver, it can be exchanged for 100 million taels of silver, according to the ratio of the silver weight between one tael of silver dollars and one tael of silver, then the central bank of the Ming Dynasty can make a profit of more than 20 million taels of silver this time, which can be converted into more than 27 million silver dollars."

Yang Mingshen calculated for Zhu Youzhen on the side.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help laughing, this is also the benefit of the imperial court to open a bank, which can easily collect money, and can also control the economy through the amount and type of currency issuance.

"Since the silver dollar reserves are sufficient, it is good that we must not increase the amount of silver dollars printed at will," Zhu Youzhen said, and Han Shoujing and others even explained.

At this time, the head of the cabinet also came to hand over the final total amount of commercial tax and silver for the eighteenth year of Chongzhen of Tianfu: "Returning to Your Majesty, this levy will collect a total of 38,260,030 yuan and five silver dollars in the city of Nanjing, and 27,267,070 yuan and four silver dollars in other state capitals of Yingtianfu, for a total of 65,522,030,000 and 5 silver dollars. ”

"So much?"

Zhu Youzhen was quite surprised, although he knew that the people of the Ming Dynasty were extremely rich, but he never thought that just one Ying Tianfu would collect more than 60 million silver dollars in taxes!

But if you think about it carefully, Zheng Zhilong's annual marine profits can be as high as tens of millions of taels, a corrupt official can confiscate millions of taels, and it is reasonable for Ying Tianfu, the richest person in the world, to collect more than 60 million silver dollars in taxes, and Zhu Youzhen does not know whether there is tax evasion and evasion in other places outside Nanjing.

However, Zhu Youzhen was also very pleased to receive more than 60 million silver dollars, which was much better than when he only relied on a few million taels of treasury income to make a living.

Two months later, Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, once again reported that in addition to Ying Tianfu, the tax silver from other places in the Ming Dynasty had also arrived in the capital one after another, and there were still more than 70 million silver dollars.

That is to say, in this tax collection work, Zhu Youzhen's Ming court made a total profit of more than 150 million silver dollars, including the profits of the Ming Central Bank through exchange business.

What is the concept of more than 150 million silver dollars, which is equivalent to the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty for 20 years ago!

This is only the eighteenth year of Chongzhen's expropriation.

Zhu Youzhen smiled happily, he didn't expect that the commodity economy in the late Ming Dynasty had reached such a point, especially in the Jiangnan region, which was simply so rich that it was much more cost-effective to levy it on the peasants than on the peasants.

Some people say that the main economic body of the Ming Dynasty is still agriculture, and it should be the peasants who bear the main obligation for the revenue of the state treasury.

However, most of the agricultural income of the Ming Dynasty was controlled by the gentry and landlords, and the agricultural tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to only increasing the burden of the yeoman farmers who received a small part of the agricultural income, but did not increase the gentry who accounted for the majority of the agricultural income.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen felt that his increase in the collection of commercial taxes did not violate economic logic, after all, most of the commercial activities carried out at the moment were the gentry and landlord class, and the increased taxes from them were equivalent to taking away a part of the agricultural income from them and returning it to the state, and achieving the result of effectively increasing the revenue of the state treasury without increasing the burden on the common people.

What Zhu Youzhen needs to think about now is how to spend the more than 150 million silver dollars so that they can generate more value.

The head of the cabinet is also thinking about this issue, because Zhu Youzhen has clearly stipulated that except for the income of the central bank of the Ming Dynasty and the salt and iron patents and the enterprises controlled by the royal capital, all kinds of tax revenues will be returned to the state treasury, which means that more than 130 million silver dollars out of more than 150 million silver dollars will be decided by him, the household secretary.

When people are rich, they can make friends, and when the court is rich, it is easy to do things.

Recently, Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department who was in charge of expenses, were the most popular, and the officials of the yamen such as the temples and offices of various ministries lined up to give gifts to the two and invite them to dinner.

Even, some local governors also began to give the two of them extra Bing Jing.

There is no other reason, and they all want to get a little more money from the household department.

Zhu Youzhen also knew that the Ming officials were low, and now was not the time to reform the political treatment of officials at all levels, so he also gave instructions to Fan Jingwen, the secretary of the household department, and Qi Biaojia, the right attendant of the household department, as long as it was not too excessive, take advantage of the time when the imperial court was rich, try to meet the needs of the yamen of the ministry, but the household department must control this degree, and don't embezzle internal funds when the time comes.

If it really comes to that point, except for special reasons, the right attendant of the household department and the household department Shangshu will be directly dismissed on the spot.

(End of chapter)